1. consistency, consistence, eubstance, body -- (the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake")
2. consistency, consistence -- (a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts)
3. consistency -- (logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency")
4. consistency -- ((logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another)

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Brocklehurst I advocate consistency in all things.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

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is detestable, brittle, without consistency or resistance. - from Doctrina Christiana by Anonymous

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancient. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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The food consisted of about a pound of some solid substance of the consistency of cheese and almost tasteless, while the liquid was apparently milk from some animal. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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It was rather small, but well built and convenient and everything was fitted up and arranged with a neatness and consistency of which Elizabeth gave Charlotte all the credit. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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True knowledge is a whole, and is at rest consistency and universality are the tests of truth. - from The Republic by Plato

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Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte